Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:14:43 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hasty@netcom.com Subject: Re: kernel breakpoints? Message-ID: <199502060614.RAA31927@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>I am trying to debug the sound driver and would like to set a >breakpoint in the driver. If type : >break _sndopen > or >break sndopen >The kernel debugger comes back saying symbol not found?? With current kernels and bootstraps, you have to give the -D flag to the bootstrap to load the symbols, and not use lkm's for the parts that you want to debug. > So what is the magic incantation? :) >P.S.: I did compile the sound driver with -g ... -g is mostly wasted for the kernel debugger, and may not work. Old kernels and bootstraps only allowed about 100K for symbols, so all the symbols produced by -g couldn't possibly fit. Now a full symbol table may just take longer to load and waste a few MB of memory. Bruce
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199502060614.RAA31927>